Notebook: Jan 2026

🎸 Canora Strat style guitar

Often listed as “Canora Stratocaster copy”

Frequently described in listings as Canadian brand

Sold in Canada, somehow they also landed in Australia

Some sellers claim MIJ

Some sellers claim MIK

No official company history found

No factory attribution found

Appears in Canadian classifieds and forums

Often described as budget import

Could have been made anywhere from late 60s through early 80s

Confirm (this unit):

• Age: 30+ (owner claimed)

• Ply body

• 21 fret maple neck

• Heel-end truss rod

• Ceramic single coils (stock)

• 500k Pots - Korean brand (JP - Jung Poong)

• Wiring seems stock

• Construction inconsistent with known MIJ guitars

Mod:

Replace cap 223 with MKP 10nF:

• Tone knob becomes:

• almost filter-like

• very usable from 10 → 3

• never completely muddies out

Replace wires: why not

Striped and repaint: Camouflage Sand Matte + Satin Clear

🎚️ Technics SL 1200 Mk2

Direct drive quartz locked turntable

Model: SL 1200 Mk2
Introduced 1979
Made in Japan

Confirm (this unit):

• Age: 30+

• Heavy die cast aluminium chassis

• Integrated rubber damping base

• Quartz locked direct drive motor

• Pitch control ±8%

• Strobe and pitch control functional

• S shaped tonearm

• Detachable SME style headshell

• 33 and 45 RPM

• Pop up target light

• Dust cover present

Service performed:

• Height adjuster freed and serviced

• Check internal ground

• Inspect tonearm bearings

Service to do:

• Clean pitch fader

• Replace RCA cables if oxidised

• Inspect electrolytic caps

• Replace tonearm holder